The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today..

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity..

The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale imm….

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no d….

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way ….

Every hour of useful work is precious..

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effecti….

Usury once in control will wreck the nation..

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws..

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government..

Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces..

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them..

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent..

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people..

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all….

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to..

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones..

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds..

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number..

Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription..

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter..